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At home with Calder: the artist’s hidden knack for domestic design
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NFT and IRL art worlds collide in female-led Christie’s auction
In an auction history first, on 14 May 2021, Christie's will offer traditional paintings accompanied by original NFT artworks by anonymous digital feminist collective Rewind
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Artist turns iconic football shirts into abstract art
Can football shirts be art? Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf tackles the worlds of painting and football in a new book, Paintings League, published by Hatje Cantz
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Five African artists demonstrating creative resilience in challenging times
As the world is forced to embrace new social distancing measures, we look at how five very different African artists are finding creative solace in solitude
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NY’s Jewish Museum spotlights the creative legacy of Roberto Burle Marx
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‘Mother!’: artists interpret the many facets of motherhood in Denmark show
Fertility, sacrifice and surveillance are just some themes examined in the group show ‘Mother!’, at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, coinciding with Mother’s Day 2021
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The hidden Le Corbusier connection in Peter Doig’s landmark painting
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Korean resort Paradise City unveils new art space with museum-worthy collection
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How a hashtag caused a surge of optimism for artists on Instagram
The #artistsupportpledge movement was created just two weeks ago but has since helped thousands of artists to sell their work in a landscape of instability. Here's how it happened, and why it might be here to stay
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A new 60s-inspired book captures the rarest colours in the world
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Hsiao Chin and Mark Rothko: a meeting of minds
A major retrospective of pioneering Chinese abstract artist Hsiao Chin's work has opened at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia. A new film exploring the artist’s practice and global influences can be found on the Wallpaper* Instagram
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Julian Schnabel riffs on Rodin at his first West Coast show in three decades
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‘I just didn’t fit’: feminist icon Judy Chicago on revolutionising art history
At the de Young Museum, San Francisco, American feminist artist Judy Chicago staged her first ever retrospective. We spoke to the artist about her epic career, filled with patriarchal battles, fierce self-belief, and a lot of smoke
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In Brussels, Titus Kaphar recasts the figures in Renaissance Christian art
In a deconsecrated church in Brussels, American painter Titus Kaphar confronts representation in Renaissance iconography. Here, we offer a virtual walkthrough of the artist’s solo show, ‘The Evidence of Things Unseen’
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Jean-Michel Basquiat meets Egon Schiele in parallel Paris retrospectives
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As Paris begins to reopen, Perrotin introduces a series of spirited cooperative exhibitions
In the name of solidarity, Perrotin has invited 26 Parisian galleries to take part in four consecutive presentations in its Saint-Claude space
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Sean Scully on self-belief, election billboards and the perils of rural Germany
Ahead of a major retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery, Irish abstract artist Sean Scully reflects on six decades of redefining abstraction and doing ‘the biggest stretch in the history of the art world’
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Fabienne Verdier: the painter reimagining Cézanne country
For a decade, Fabienne Verdier lived in China studying under Huang Yuan, a Sichuanese calligraphy master and landscape painter. Now, back in her native France, the abstract artist is following in the footsteps of another master as three leading institutions in Aix-en-Provence open major exhibitions tracing her journey, from a nomadic artist’s workshop to paintings recently created in the landscape immortalised by Cézanne
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Painting architecture: Tommy Fitzpatrick’s fractured modernist visions
Tommy Fitzpatrick’s new series of electric-hued architectural paintings capture the American artist's 30-year fascination with modernism
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Emma Talbot explores Greek myth and femininity at Whitechapel Gallery
In ‘The Age/L’Età’, her Max Mara Art Prize show at Whitechapel Gallery, Emma Talbot imagines a reality where violence is overturned by resolution, nurtured by an elderly female protagonist
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At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão
we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York
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Art Basel Hong Kong recalibrates with a digital-only edition
Following the cancellation of its Hong Kong fair, Art Basel has bounced back with Online Viewing Rooms, where Asian art takes centre stage
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The untold story of the architect who turned Spain’s modernist power plants into art
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Jason Boyd Kinsella’s curious portraits dissect the architecture of human
Based on the Myers-Briggs personality test, Jason Boyd Kinsella’s new portrait series, on show at Perrotin in Paris, examines the building blocks of human existence
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Gillian Wearing explores masks and metaphors at the Guggenheim
In our interview series, we find out what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. We revisit our 2020 interview with Gillian Wearing as she unveils 'Wearing Masks' at the Guggenheim, her first US retrospective
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Damien Hirst’s ‘almost tacky’ Cherry Blossoms bloom in Japan
After being exhibited at Paris’ Fondation Cartier, Damien Hirst’s vibrant, explosive cherry blossoms have taken on new life at The National Art Center, Tokyo, just in time for cherry blossom season
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Torkwase Dyson and Mark Rothko inaugurate Pace gallery’s new London home
Just in time for Frieze Week 2021, Pace has opened its much-anticipated Hanover Square gallery with shows by Torkwase Dyson and Mark Rothko
